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Marguery Burke Bolhagen (1920-2021) was principally recognized as a designer for the social set, most notably the über-fashionable Austine McDonnell “Bootsie” Hearst.

According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s biography of her, Bolhagen worked for Charles James prior to forging out on her own with stores in Washington DC and New York. Her designs were known for a structure that suggest James’s.

Her designs were sold off the rack by Bergdorf Goodman in 1965.

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from a 1959 lace ballgown and cape - Courtesy of Augusta Auctions

from a 1959 lace ballgown and cape

Courtesy of Augusta Auctions